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Here is the top part of the same FBI document in Bowtie that refers to Suzy Chang. I'll attach the bottom part in next message.

The FBI file Bowtie also reflects that Suzy a/k/a Susie whose real name was Esther, was born Nov. 23, 1945 and that her mother became a naturalized U.S. citizen in Delaware on Dec. 18, 1961. She filed a petition for her daughter on April 3, 1962 in Philadelphia for "a second preference visa under the Chinese quota for her daughter Esther. The mother was represented, in connection with this petition, by the New York City law firm of Donovan, Leisure and Irvin [sic]." The FBI was quoting information obtained from the Immigration and Naturalization Service officer Carl Burrows. Note, the software for the Forum does not allow me to attach the first page of the document in this note. What the FBI document fails to address is the fact that the senior partner of the law firm mentioned was William Joseph Donovan, who founded the firm in 1929, a decade before he was selected to head the OSS, but that he had died in 1959. A later Director of the CIA, William E. Colby, had been, as his first job out of law school in 1947, an associate attorney for Donovan, Leisure, Newton, & Irvine, when it was headed by Wild Bill Donovan, the OSS director during World War II, under whom Colby had served with the OSS. In early 1951 Colby left the firm, ostensibly to join the Department of State's Foreign Service, and inn October 1953 he was transferred from Sweden to Rome, Italy. In 1958 he spent a few months as a desk officer in Washington, D.C. but was assigned to Saigon in January 1959 where he was a "Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador. Elbridge Durbrow was there from 1957 until 1961 and replaced by Frederick Nolting, Jr. A few months before JFK was murdered, Nolting was replaced by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. In early 1963, Colby was named the CIA's Far East Division Chief and returned to Washington, D.C. [from Wiki] While Colby was in Rome from 1953 to 1958, "he helped to arrange the secret subsidization of political parties to prevent communist electoral victories." This was several years after Angleton had worked in Italy. In Vietnam Colby's real job from 1959 to 1962 was CIA station chief in Saigon. UK immigration files show that Suzy had gone to England in 1954 as a nursing student at a hospital in Birmingham.

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So Hasty's source appears to have been Kevin Phillips, but what is the source for this Permargo information? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapata_Corporation In 1962, Bush was joined in Zapata Off-Shore by a fellow Yale Skull and Bones member, Robert Gow. By 1963, Zapata Off-Shore had four operational oil-drilling — Scorpion (1956), Vinegaroon (1957), Sidewinder, and (in the Persian Gulf) Nola III. In 1960, Jorge Diaz Serrano of Mexico was put in touch with Bush by Dresser. They created a new company, Perforaciones Marinas del Golfo, aka Permargo, in conjunction with Edwin Pauley of Pan American Petroleum, with whom Zapata had a previous offshore contract. The deal with Pemargo is not mentioned in Zapata's annual reports. A Bush spokesman in 1988 claimed the deal only lasted seven months, from March to September 1960. Zapata sold Nola I to Pemargo in 1964. By 1964, Zapata Off-Shore had a number of subsidiaries, including: Seacat-Zapata Offshore Company (Persian Gulf), Zapata de Mexico, Zapata International Corporation, Zapata Mining Corporation, Zavala Oil Company, Zapata Overseas Corporation, and a 41% share of Amata Gas Corporation. Bush ran for the United States Senate in 1964 and lost; he continued as president of Zapata Off-Shore until 1966, when he sold his interest to his business partner, Robert Gow, and ran for the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1966, William Stamps Farish III, age 28, joined the board Zapata Board. That comes from Tarpley and Chaitkin: http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook/bush8.html And from me: http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lindaminor/lm3,19,02harvardtoenron,pt1.htm Although Zapata Offshore was a company of modest dimensions, under George H.W. Bush it had a network of subsidiaries which was suspiciously complex. Zapata Offshore filings with the SEC in Washington for the year 1960-1966 were "inadvertently" destroyed by a federal warehouse. During that time, a short profile of the Zapata Offshore corporate substructure researched by a Mr. Allan Mandel was submitted to Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough on October 13, 1964, which showed Zapata Offshore owned 50% of Seacat-Zapata Offshore Company, which operated the drilling rig NOLA III in the Persian Gulf. In addition, Mandel identified the following Zapata Offshore subsidiaries: A. Zapata de Mexico B. Zapata International Corporation C. Zapata Lining Corporation D. Zavala Oil Company E. Zapata Overseas Corporation F. Zapata owns 41 percent of Amata Gas Corporation. Zapata Lining was the pipe lining concern; it was divested in 1964. Ownership of Amata Gas was shared with the American Research and Development Corporation of Boston. This Boston venture capital firm, closely tied to M.I.T., once had as its Technical Director our current Deputy Secretary of Commerce Samuel W. Bodman, who also worked for Fidelity Investments and the Cabot Corporation. Cabot Corp. was founded by Godfrey Lowell Cabot of the Massachusetts shipping family which made a great deal of money in the early 19th century in the opium trade in the Far East. The Zapata Offshore filings with the SEC between 1955 and 1959 are cryptic, and the SEC files on Zapata Offshore between 1960 and 1966, when Bush had exclusive control of the company, were destroyed by the SEC either in 1981, when Bush had just become vice president, or somewhat later, in October, 1983, according to various SEC officials. Bush did resign as chairman and CEO of Zapata Offshore in February 1966, when he put his assets into a blind trust controlled by W.S. Farish III, our current Ambassador to the Court of St. James in London. 1979 Zapata Corporation SEC filing William H. Flynn, Chairman of the Board of Directors Chairman and CEO of Zapata from March 1969 to date. Pres. of Zapata from Feb. 1966 to March 1969 and from Oct. 1974 to date. J.B. Harrison, President and CEO, Director President of Zapata Corp. from Jan. 1970 to Sept. 30, 1974. V-P and Gen. Mgr. of International Exploration and Production for Atlantic Richfield Oil Co., NY, an oil and gas producing company from Sept. 1968 to Jan. 1970. President of the Company from Aug. 1972 to date. W. Dow Hamm, Director Independent petroleum consultant since December 1967. For the 25 years prior to that date, Mr. Hamm was employed by Atlantic Richfield Co. in various executive positions related to natural resources exploration, during the last three years of which he served as a Director, member of the Exec. Com. and Exec. VP for International Exploration and Production. A.G. Gueymard, Director Senior VP and head of the Petroleum and Minerals Dept. of First City National Bank of Houston for more than the past five years prior to his retirement in April 1973. Since that time, he has served as an advisory director of First City National Bank of Houston, and is an independent financial consultant. Remuneration: P.E. Baria VP, Gen. Mgr for Europe and Africa D.S. Hare VP [Zapata guaranteed payment for various companies. Here are a few references to those guaranties.] March 29, 1979--Port Clyde Foods, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary, acquisition of sardine and herring processing. May 22, 1979--Ocean Maid Foods Division of Granby, line of credit from The Toronto-Dominion Bank up to $5 million ($2MM increase), proceeds for working capital. May 22, 1979--Ocean Maid line of credit from Bank of Nova Scotia up to $100,000 for plant payroll. June 1, 1979--Zapata Off-shore, wholly-owned subsidiary, credit agreement with Manufacturers Hanover Trust, loans up to $16,700,000 for construction of two self-contained platform oil-drilling rigs. Item 13. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management. {page 19} The following persons are known by Zapata to be the beneficial owners, as of December 2, 1979, of more than five percent of any class of Zapata's equity securities. International Mining Corp. 10% of common--869,004 shares 200 Park Ave., NY John F. Maher 5.9% common--527,964 shares 2131 San Felipe, Houston Irving Zwecker 17.9% $6 preferred--12,000 shares 3800 Oaks Country Club Dr., Pompano Beach, Fla. Saul Zwecker 14.9% $6 preferred--10,000 shares 11 Olympic Street Rockland, Maine Hugh Smith Haynie 7.9% $6 preferred--5,286 shares Springfields, Apache Road Louisville, Kentucky Grossi Brothers 29.3% $2 preference--12,000 shares 208 S. LaSalle St. Suite 604 Chicago, Ill. International Mining Corp. (IMC) filed Schedule 13D with SEC, indicating that IMC also owns Zapata debt securities presently convertible into 4.598 shares of Zapata common stock, not included in the table. IMC is wholly-owned subsidiary of Pacific Holding Corporation, which is in turn a wholly-owned subsidiary of Murdock Investment Corp., all the stock of which is owned by David H. Murdock, 10889 Wilshire Boulevard, L.A., CA. Mur Murdock will reportedly make all investment and voting decisions with respect to the shares held by IMC, and thus is deemed the beneficial owner of such shares. Directors and percentage of Zapata stock owned (I did not list less than 2%): David H. Murdock -- 869,004 shares of common; 4,598 conversions for 873,602 total -- 10% Officers and directors as a group (22 persons) -- total 12.8% common Item 14. Directors and Exec. officers. F. Arnold Daum, director since May 1979, senior partner of Cahill Gordon & Reindel (since 1943); also director of Apco Argentina, Inc., Devon Group, Inc., General Signal Corp., Northwest Energy Company, Tenneco Offshore Co., and Westates-Italo, Inc. A.G. Gueymard, director since 1973, independent financial consultant in Houston for more than five years; advisory director to First City National Bank of Houston; director of Camco, Inc. and Midhurst Corp. Sam Israel, Jr., director since 1967; Exec. VP, director and chairman of Exec. Com. of ACLI International Inc. for more than five years; also director of New Orleans Public Service, Inc. Ronald C. Lassiter, director since 1974; Pres. and CEO of Zapata since 1978. George A. Lorenz, director since June 1979; retired as general manager of marketing department of Shell Oil Company in 1969 after 34 years service with Shell and subsidiaries. B. John Mackin, director since 1966; chairman and CEO of Zapata since March 1979; also director of Tenneco. [Does not mention here his previous connection to Baker & Botts law firm] David H. Murdock, director since December 1979; more than last five years sole proprietor of David H. Murdock Development Co.; owns all of the stock of Murdock Investment Corp; engaged in commercial real estate development and financial investments. [Other items noted which may be significant]: Zapata Granby Corp, a subsidiary of Zapata, had a loan outstanding to Rogert P. Taylor, formerly the senior VP of Mining of Zapata and President of Zapata Granby. This was an interest-free loan made to enable Mr. Taylor to purchase a home. Largest aggregate amount of the loan was $44,000 (Canadian). On November 30, 1979 the loan was transferred to Noranda Mines Limited in connection with the sale by Zapata of its Canadian mining assets. During the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 1979, Zapata had certain amounts of indebtedness owed to First City National Bank of Houston, largest of which was $19,949,576. Director Gueymard is an advisory director of First City. Since Oct. 1, 1978 Baker & Botts has been paid $611,040 for legal services rendered to Zapata. B. John Mackin, chairman and CEO of Zapata was until March 1979 a senior partner of Baker & Botts. During same period Cahill Gordon & Reindel (NY) also provided legal services. Daum is a senior partner of Cahill. Zapata has not yet received a bill for such services.

I'm not sure who Michael Hasty is or where he got his information. The best source of information is Bush himself. In his autobiography called Looking Forward at page 65 he said that, after working a few years for a Dresser subsidiary in Odessa, he decided to form his own oil company—Bush-Overbey—which was set up for him by his uncle, “Herbie Walker.” He says he went scrounging for funds in “the big cities,” where his best contact was Eugene Meyer, then owner of the Washington Post, who invested $50,000 for himself and another unspecified amount for his son-in-law, Phil Graham. George admits in his autobiography that he had met Meyer previously because “Brown Brothers, Harriman and Company managed a lot of his accounts.”

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=377542 MEMORANDUM: MESSRS. GEORGE BUSH AND THOMAS J. DEVINE This memo does mention that Devine was used in Project Wubriny (CSA in June 1963 from Domestic Operation Division). It mentions he is a "cleared and witting contact in the investment banking firm which houses and manages the proprietary corporation WUSALINE." http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=452012 CONTACT REPORT WUBRINY HAITIAN OPERATIONS Person with code name Wubriny called on "the sterile phone" to brief C. Frank Stone III (chief DO/COEO) on DeMohrenschildt's activities in Haiti in April 1963. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=256355 CONTACT REPORT: A MEETING WAS HELD IN THE LIBRARY OF THE KNICKERBOCKER This is dated April 25, 1963 about a contact made between Wubriny/1 and C. Frank Stone III http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=8 Contact report from May 15, 1963 also mentions Wubriny/2 meeting with Stone and Wubriny/1 in New York. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=525220 HERBERT ITKIN John K. Greaney, Assistant General Counsel, memo to file on 1/31/69 Concerns a meeting of Greaney, counsel Lawrence Houston and Rocca about a "confrontation" with NY FBI office on January 17, 1969. They discussed two individuals whose names were redacted. One was said to be a staff agent of the CIA since 8/28/61 who had been assigned in 1964 to write a monograph, which had been funded by a grant from a foundation whose cover was blown in MHDOWEL (I suspect that is code for U.S. Press). One of the individuals [name redacted] had been requested for use with Project DTPILLAR in November 1953 to Feb. 1955 and later in March 1964 for WUBRINY. When the Domestic Operations Division advised Security that this person would not be used in WUBRINY, Rocca commented that "there are some rather ominous allegations against members of the firm of [redacted]," indicating one member of that firm was a "card-carrying member of the Communist Party." The memo went on to say that Rocca was investigating the use of the individual in Project DTPILLAR concerning whether that person had mentioned activities in Geneva in March 1966 in connection with Herbert Itkin. What this last document indicates is that early in 1969 the legal counsel to the CIA were very concerned about two people who had been in contact with Herbert Itkin and had confronted the FBI about them. A month later Greaney had another meeting about Itkin, this time with Morgenthau: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=2

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...absPageId=18986 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...absPageId=19006

Great work, Tom! See if you can figure out the relationship between Edward Gordon Hooker's mother and the Marguerite/Margaret Williams who left money to George deMohrenschildt in her will and helped get him a job with Humble Oil.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=377899 HORTON, PHILIP C. (MEMO ON PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING IF HERBERT ITKIN WAS RECRUITED) The above document refers to a "Philip Harbin." The name was given by Herbert Itkin, who said Harbin recruited him in Philadelphia in 1954 to work with GOLIATH. The document was prepared by Keough at CIA for Special Agent in Charge in November 1968. If we do a search on GOLIATH, here's one document that comes up: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=494384 William D. Pawley Also: Oswald and the CIA pg 253, by Newman, John (1995) Hemming's statement "that he was a GOLIATH agent who was on a training mission in connection with an assignment aimed at Cuba... Subsequently this matter was brought to the attention of the... According to Ferrell, Itkin was a NY attorney for FBI in a case in 1968, in which he was eventually indicted. He registered as a foreign agent representing the Dominican Republic and worked on a bond issue for a Haitian-born man in Florida named Robert Deschamps. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=484938 Robert Deschamps is mentioned also here: And We Are All Mortal pg 188, by Evica, George Michael (1978) CHAPTER 14 ,,.to negotiate on behalf of the Dominican Republic and a bank or brokerage company in the United States [called Westrade, Inc.] a bond issue of $35,000,000 to extend over a period of 15 years Robert Deschamps In June 1964 the CIA wrote about a plot by Haitian refugees to overthrow Francois Duvalier: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=2

John, Did you happen to see what I posted here? http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...45&start=45 Winston Scott: CIA Station Chief in Mexico, Was he murdered? I just finished the book last night and was amazed to come across the name of Fergie Dempster in connection with "another agency man named Al Ulmer, who first met Win back in his Havana days and more recently had served as London station chief." I'm assuming this is the same Al Ulmer mentioned in Russ Baker's more recent book, Family of Secrets. Were you aware of any connection Ulmer may have had to Bush back in the "Havana days"?

I am not sure he does. Russ Baker writes about George de Mohrenschildt's meetings with Willem Oltmans. However, those meetings began in February 1977. De Mohrenschildt's letter is dated September 1976. He does say that Jeanne and George de Mohrenschildt divorced in 1974. She claimed that "a doctor had appeared in Dallas for a brief period and administered injections to him. Following those injections, she said, George suffered a nervous breakdown, at which point she decided to have him hospitalized. The doctor, she claimed, vanished into thin air." p. 271. Above that quote, on the same page it says that she signed the commitment papers on November 9, 1976. The quoted passage cites an article by Jim Marrs in the Fort Worth evening Star Telegram, May 11, 1978 with a headline entitled "Widow Disputes Suicide." One could almost assume the doctor appeared in response to the letter? http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread409512/pg4 “Sep. 1976, Sergei [sic] DeMohrenschildt was subjected to nine electro-shock treatments at Parkland Hospital under orders given by Doctor DeLoach …first cousin of FBI Assistant Director Cartha ‘Deke’ DeLoach. DeMohrenschildt’s doctor of record’, Dr. Mendoza, ordered administration of intravenous drugs on DeMohrenschildt being committed to Parkland Hospital for mental problems’ but, it was DeLoach that ordered electro-shock therapy. This occurred when George Bush was Director of Central Intelligence …and, within weeks of DeMohrenschildt having written a manuscript, entitled, I Am A Patsy! I Am A Patsy! …which named names of various CIA and FBI personnel who framed Oswald to cover their tracks in JFK’s assassination." ... “DeMohrenshieldt’s wife told Jim Marrs, a Dallas reporter, ‘He must have still harbored guilt feelings about his work for Germans during World War II, because he told me, ‘It’s Jews, they’ve caught up with me,’” Grodin said. In 1964, a CIA report states, ‘[George's daughter] Alexandra was being monitored by CIA’s James Jesus Angleton because she was having an affair with Mohammed al Fayed shortly after JFK assassination.’ James Jesus Angleton’s name is signed at bottom of that 41 page report. Under his signature is that of CIA asset, Jane Roman. Roman was CIA agent who record shows was charged with monitoring movements of Lee Harvey Oswald for two months preceding assassination. The above website cites: "note:Burnham comments on DeMohrenshildt. www.john-f-kennedy.net... " That cited website actually used information without accreditation from Adamson: http://ciajfk.com/timeline.html De M was business partners with Mohamed Al Fayed in 1964. Fayed had an affair with Alexandra de Mohrenschildt and James Angleton of the CIA was interested in this. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=1 This document indicates deM. and Mohammad Abdel Fayed were in contact in Haiti, and that Fayed was traveling under Haitian passport but suspected of having been a member of Egyptian intelligence in 1953 in Saudi Arabia. Also had involvement with Trujillo and possibly Castro. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...ult&id=3708 A Record from Mary Ferrell's Database Record: FAYED, MOHAMMED (SHEIK) Sources: FBI 124-10135-10123; FBI 100-32965-306, pp. 2, 6, 28; NW 381-2, 6, 28; Dallas Morning News, Wed., 6/23/99, p. 13-A Mary's Comments: Oil businessman from Kuwait. Was entertained at dinner by George and Jeanne deMohrenschildt in Haiti in June 1964 while official guest of Haitian Government. It was reported (by a CIA informant ?) that Alexandra deMohrenschildt Gibson, daughter of George deMohrenschildt, while visiting her father in Haiti in December 1964 without her husband, Don, was dating Mohammed Fayed. Fayad purchased Harrods in London in early 1980s. (Fayed's son, Dodi, was killed in an automobile accident in Paris on August 31, 1997 that also killed English Princess Dianna.) Mohammed Fayed repeatedly applied for British citizenship but was denied each time. The last time he applied was Tues., 6/22/99. That time, he won permission to challenge the government's decision refusing him British citizenship. In 1999, Fayad was 66 years old. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...ult&id=4146 A Record from Mary Ferrell's Database Record: GIBSON, DONALD (MRS.) (ALEXANDRA DEMOHRENSCHILDT) Sources: WC 26, p. 760; CE 3116; FBI 124-10135-10123; FBI 100-32965-306, p. 18; NW 381-18 Mary's Comments: Jenner says Mr. and Mrs. Gibson are planning to leave Wingdale, NY and move to Florida. While deMohrenschildts were in Haiti, they received a piece of mail with return address: "Alex GIBSON, 701 N.E. 22nd Street, Miami, Florida" postmarked November 19, 1964. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...ult&id=3239 A Record from Mary Ferrell's Database Record: DEMOHRENSCHILDT, ALEXANDRA ROMEYN (MRS. GARY TAYLOR) Sources: Warren Report (289, 313); WC 11 (124-153); Kennedy Conspiracy, Flammonde (196); HSCA Vol 12, pp. 92, 95-97; Mary's Comments: DOB: December 25, 1943. Daughter of George deMohrenschildt and Dorothy Romeyn Pierson. Married to Gary Taylor Nov. 1959. Divorced Taylor April 1963 following birth of son, Curtis Taylor on Feb. 10, 1962. Married to Donald Gibson by 1963. Friend of William Sprott, Attorney, at Tilton home in Florida in 1977. In 1993, owns boutique, Cafa Chic, in Del Ray Beach, FL. In 1994, when Nancy Tilton died, Alexandra sold Cafa Chic and moved to Tubac, AZ, to open a "bed and breakfast" in Nancy's home. The place was called The Secret Garden Inn. In 2001, Alexandra and Giorgio Miola sold the inn to people who converted it to a private residence. Alexandra and Giorgio moved to Green Valley, AZ. In April 2002, her address is: 1411 W. Via Del Petirrojo, Green Valley, AZ 85614-5013 (microfilm)/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 5: Conte - De Mohrenschildt)/ NARA Record Number: 1994.04.25.14:03:32:190005 indicates connections between De Mohrenschildt and Fayed: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=547876 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=547943 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=548076

I keep finding myself wondering whether Angleton can be explained merely as a paranoid spy working for America. Is it possible he was recruited by someone else besides the Soviets at some point in his career? Sort of like J. Edgar Hoover's protection of mafia. Maybe someone got to Angleton while he was in Italy? For example: http://www.ctka.net/pr700-ang.html By Lisa Pease, "James Jesus Angleton and the Kennedy Assassination," from the July-August 2000 issue (Vol. 7 No. 5) Probe: ...James Jesus Angleton was the son of James Hugh Angleton, an NCR executive who had once participated in General Pershing’s pursuit in Mexico of Pancho Villa, and Carmen Moreno, a Mexican woman. He grew up in Boise, Idaho and later Dayton, Ohio, where NCR was headquartered. At the age of fourteen, his family moved to Milan, Italy (where NCR manufactured cash registers). Angleton spent summers at British prep schools and Malvern College. He participated in international Boy Scout Jamboree events in Scotland, Hungary and Holland. Angleton biographer Tom Mangold indicates that when the Nazis took over the Boy Scouts in Germany, Angleton made friends with some anti-Nazi leaders and carried their letters back to the founder of the international Boy Scout movement in England. Both father and son would serve the OSS. Angleton’s father was described by Max Corvo, a top OSS officer in Italy, as "ultra-conservative, a sympathizer with Fascist officials. He certainly was not unfriendly with the Fascists."2 When he reached college age, Angleton attended Yale, where Angleton first showed a pension for staying up all night. Insomnia was to plague him most of his life. Although many who knew him described him as "brilliant," Angleton’s record at Yale was undistinguished; during his junior and senior years he received two F’s and four D’s, and ended up withdrawing from another class relating to his major, English. But Angleton managed to impress teachers with his mysteriousness, his apparent maturity, and his self-assurance. Angleton took a serious interest in poetry and, with Reed Whittemore, co-edited the poetry magazine Furiouso, which included poems by e e cummings and Ezra Pound, among other notables. Because of his interest in this area, he was to be called by some the "Poet-Spy." After graduating in the lowest 25% of his class, Angleton enrolled at Harvard Law School. According to Mangold, "Angleton’s move to Harvard was not the consequence of any strong ambition to study law. Rather, like many young men at the time, he was putting his future on hold." During his Harvard period, Angleton met and married his wife, Cicely D’Autremont. The marriage took place a few weeks after Angleton had been drafted into the Army. Shortly thereafter, through the combined efforts of his OSS father, and his former Yale English professor Norman Pearson, then heading up the OSS Counterintelligence effort in London, Angleton was transferred to London to study Italian matters for X-2, the OSS counterintelligence component. It was during this period that Angleton met Kim Philby, the man who would become every counterintelligence officer’s nightmare. Philby rose to a position of great influence in the British intelligence service, until he was finally exposed as a Soviet agent and fled behind the Iron Curtain. Angleton was devastated by this, despite having been warned by Bill Harvey at an early time that Philby looked like a mole. In October of 1944, Angleton was transferred to Rome as commanding officer of Special Counterintelligence Unit Z, a joint American-British detachment. Less than half a year later, Angleton was made the Chief of X-2 in Italy. He was the youngest X-2 chief across OSS. His staff included Raymond G. Rocca, who would loyally serve by his side until Angleton’s ouster from the CIA in 1974. While he was clearly an accomplished counterintelligence expert by this time, there was another aspect which deserves mention. In his book The Real Spy World, longtime CIA officer Miles Copeland describes, through a slightly fictionalized veil in which he calls Angleton by the false nickname "Mother," a different story. For background, SI, referenced within, was, according to Copeland, an OSS division which X-2 officers held in contempt. According to Copeland: In 1946, an X-2 officer known within the organization as "Mother" took a lot of information on Palestine from The New York Times; spooked it up a bit with fabricated details, places, and claims of supersecret sources; and sent it to the head of SI, Stephen Penrose, for appraisal. After studying it carefully, Penrose and his assistants decided that the material was "genuine," that its source must be very deep inside secret Zionist and Arab terrorist groups, and that arrangements should be made for developing the sources into a regular espionage network. Mother then negotiated with Penrose for a budget, meanwhile leading the SI officers through a maze of fake names, fake background reports, and the like, and finally established that SI would be willing to pay as much as $100,000 a year out of what was left of OSS funds. Mother then confessed that the whole thing was a hoax and that the information could have been acquired for 25 cents through the purchase of five issues of The New York Times.3 In other words, Angleton’s activities, however successful, were not limited to acts of loyalty to his fellow intelligence compatriots, but could occasionally be directed to more personal, vindictive measures. Copeland paints this as a jolly escapade. But in his footnotes, he admits that Penrose, against whom this operation was conducted, suffered a near-breakdown as a result, and was transferred to less stressful jobs. "[Penrose] and various other top people in SI (with a few conspicuous exceptions, such as Richard Helms, who defected to X-2 and went on to become the CIA’s director) were generally thought to be ‘too Christ-like for the spy business,’ as Mother put it."4 Copeland, by the way, was one of twenty-five OSS officers Angleton wanted to remember in his 1949 will. Others included Allen Dulles, "the operator, the patriot;" Richard Helms; and Ray Rocca.5 After the war, Angleton did not wish to return to his new wife, nor his son, born in his absence, and chose instead to remain in action in Europe. X-2 was folded into the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), ostensibly a War Department unit and a temporary holding place for the then defunct OSS. Two years after the war, Angleton would return stateside to his wife and son to work for the amalgam of temporary intelligence agencies that would eventually become the CIA. There, he would achieve notoriety for his late hours, and for being, as his secretary Gloria Loomis related, "a terrible taskmaster."6 The SSU and other remaining intelligence units evolved over time into two separate pieces – the Office of Special Operations (OSO), and the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). Richard Helms served with Angleton and Rocca in the OSO. Stewart Alsop, in his book The Center, the "Prudent Professionals," labeled the OSO people the "Prudent Professionals." Alsop called the OPC crowd the "Bold Easterners." The OPC included Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Edward Lansdale, Desmond Fitzgerald and Tracy Barnes. In Italy, 1947, Angleton participated in an OSO operation given to a group called SPG, or Special Procedures Group, in which propaganda and other means were used to keep the Italians from voting any Communists into office.7 Other means included the Mafia. "Wild Bill" Donovan, founder of the OSS, helped release "Lucky" Luciano and other Mafia criminals from jail in New York so they could return to Italy and provide not only contacts, but if necessary, the strong-arm tactics needed to win the war against incipient Communism in Italy. Angleton’s later reported contacts with the Mob may well stem back to this period. One of the groups most interested in defeating the communists in Italy was, not surprisingly, the Vatican. Angleton both gave and received intelligence to and from the Vatican. Among Angleton’s most famous agents in Italy was Mons Giovanni Montini. Montini would become famous in 1963 when he became Pope Paul VI.8 Angleton has been named as a source for funds which were used to defeat the Communists. In return, evidently, Angleton obtained access to the Ratlines the Vatican was using to move people out of Europe to safety abroad. Angleton and others from the State Department used the Ratlines to ferry Nazis to South America.9 The OPC crowd held enormous sway in the early days of the CIA, but that changed in the wake of the spectacular failure at the Bay of Pigs. Curiously, Richard Helms and Angleton both saw their careers rise by standing on the sidelines and keeping free of all dealings related to the Bay of Pigs. Angleton made an interesting comment about the Bay of Pigs episode. He told the HSCA that before the Bay of Pigs, he had asked Bissell, "Do you have an escape hatch?" He asked Bissell most plainly, "In case the thing falls flat on its face is there someone who goes to Castro and says, ‘you have won the battle. What is your price?’" Angleton explained to the HSCA that he was trying to say, "have you planned for the failure as much as planned for the success?" The implication was that this was Angleton’s own modus operandi in such matters.10 We would do well to remember that statement in the context of the Kennedy assassination and cover-up. During the period between the end of the war and the formation of the CIA, William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the establishment lawyer who created the OSS, lobbied long and hard for a single intelligence agency to pick up where the OSS had left off, running secret operations and gathering human intelligence or "humint" in new and creative ways. In the end, although Donovan would not be a part of it, the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA was ultimately formed through the National Security Act of 1947. Before the CIA was created, many in Congress feared that the creation of a new intelligence agency would lead to a police state similar to the one they had just defeated in Germany, and refused to back Donovan’s efforts. But the loudest protest came from J. Edgar Hoover, who feared a direct encroachment upon the FBI’s turf. One could argue that the OSS people won because they made the better case. But there is another possibility here. Angleton, Hoover and Blackmail In Tony Summers’ book about J. Edgar Hoover, Official and Confidential, Summers showed that Meyer Lansky, a top Mob figure, had blackmail power over Hoover through possession of photos that showed Hoover and his lifelong friend and close associate Clyde Tolson together sexually. In the paperback edition of the same book, Summers introduced another figure who evidently had possession of such photos: James Angleton. If Angleton had such photos, imagine how he could have used them to force the FBI’s hand during the investigation of the Kennedy assassination. Summers names two sources for this allegation: former OSS officer John Weitz, and the curious Gordon Novel. Weitz claimed he had been showed the picture by the host of a dinner party in the fifties. "It was not a good picture and was clearly taken from some distance away, but it showed two men apparently engaged in homosexual activity. The host said the men were Hoover and Tolson…." Summers added in the 1994 version, "Since first publication of this book, Weitz has revealed that his host was James Angleton."11 Novel’s account is even more interesting. Novel said that Angleton had shown him some photos of Hoover and Tolson in 1967, when Novel was involved in New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s case against Clay Shaw. "I asked him if they were fakes, " Novel recounted, "but he said they were real, that they’d been taken with a special lens. They looked authentic to me…." Novel’s explanation of why Angleton showed him the pictures is even more interesting: I was pursuing a lawsuit against Garrison, which Hoover wanted me to drop but which my contacts in the Johnson administration and at CIA wanted me to pursue. I’d been told I would incur Hoover’s wrath if I went ahead, but Angleton was demonstrating that Hoover was not invulnerable, that the Agency had enough power to make him come to heel. I had the impression that this was not the first time the sex pictures had been used. Angleton told me to go see Hoover and tell him I’d seen the sex photographs. Later, I went to the Mayflower Hotel and spoke to Hoover. He was with Tolson, sitting in the Rib Room. When I mentioned that I had seen the sex photographs, and that Angleton had sent me, Tolson nearly choked on his food."12 Now, Novel has been known to fell a few tall tales in his day. But he has on other occasions been forthcoming with interesting and sometimes self-incriminating material (such as his own participation in the Houma raid and the association between David Phillips and Guy Banister).13 Given Weitz’s corroboration, and given Angleton’s enormous power over many in high places, Novel’s account rings true. Novel added that Angleton claimed the photos had been taken around 1946.14 During the 1945-1947 timeframe, Hoover was battling hard to prevent the creation of any other intelligence organization separate from the FBI. And during this period, Angleton was involved with the Mafia in the Italian campaign. It’s certainly possible under such circumstances that Lansky or one of his associates may have shared the photos with Angleton. And the reverse case can also be considered. Miles Copeland adds additional credibility to this scenario in his account of this period. "Penetration begins at home," Copeland has Angleton/"Mother" saying, "and if we can’t find out what’s going on in the offices where our future is being planned, we don’t deserve to be in business."15 Copeland presented this scenario: There are several stories in the CIA’s secret annals to explain how the dispute was settled, but although they "make better history," as Allen Dulles used to say, they are only half-truths and much less consistent with the ways of government than the true ones. Old-timers at the Agency swear that the anti-espionage people would almost certainly have won out had it not been for the fact that an Army colonel who had been assigned to the new management group charged with the job of organizing the new Agency suborned secretaries in the FBI, the State Department, and the Defense Department and organized them into an espionage network which proved not only the superiority of espionage over other forms of acquiring "humint" (i.e. intelligence on what specific human beings think and do in privacy), but the necessity for its being systemized and tightly controlled. The colonel was fired, as were the secretaries, but by that time General John Magruder, then head of the group that was organizing the CIA, had in his hands a strong argument for creating a professional espionage service and putting it under a single organization. Also, thanks to the secretaries and their Army spymaster, he had enough material to silence enemies of the new Agency—including even J. Edgar Hoover, since Magruder was among the very few top bureaucrats in Washington on whom Mr. Hoover didn’t have material for retaliation.16 Is he saying what he appears to be saying? Copeland added, cryptically, "The success of the old SSU cadre (former OSS and future CIA officers) in perpetuating itself has been due in part to an extraordinary capacity for Byzantine intrigue…." And in a footnote to this phrase, Copeland explains, still somewhat cryptically, "This intrigue was mainly to keep ‘The Hill’ off its back." Copeland seems to be insinuating that more people than Hoover were blackmailed to ensure the creation and perpetuation of the CIA. David Wise also lends credence to such a scenario with this episode. Thomas Braden, a CIA media operative was confronted by Dulles over a remark Braden had about one of Dulles’ professional relationships. Wise recounted what followed: "You’d better watch out," [Allen] Dulles warned him. "Jimmy’s got his eye on you." Braden said he drew the obvious conclusion: James Angleton had bugged his bedroom and was picking up pillow talk between himself and his wife, Joan. But Braden said he was only mildly surprised at the incident, because Angleton was known to have bugs all over town.17 Braden described how Angleton would enter Dulles’s office "first thing in the morning" to report the take from the overnight taps: "He used to delight Allen with stories of what happened at people’s dinner parties … Jim used to come into Allen’s office and Allen would say, ‘How’s the fishing? And Jim would say, ‘Well, I got a few nibbles last night.’ It was all done in the guise of fishing talk."18 More to the point, Braden was upset because "some senator or representative might say something that might be of use to the Agency. I didn’t think that was right. I think Jim was amoral."19 It would not be beyond belief that Angleton routinely used information gathered through clearly illegal taps to blackmail people into supporting his efforts. No wonder some of his Agency associates feared him. Indeed, just about everyone in the Agency who knew Angleton came to fear him and to avoid crossing his path. This extended from subordinates to some of the highest officials to serve the agency, including Allen Dulles and Richard Helms. Angleton was called "no-knock" because he had unprecedented access to senior agency officials. Said Braden, "He always came alone and had this aura of secrecy about him, something that made him stand out—even among other secretive CIA officers. In those days, there was a general CIA camaraderie, but Jim made himself exempt from this. He was a loner who worked alone."20 Angleton knew that knowledge was power, so not only would he go to extraordinary lengths to obtain such, he would also lord his knowledge over others, especially incoming CIA directors. Said one Angleton contemporary, "He would put each new director through the embarrassment of having to beg him to indoctrinate them in important CIA matters. Jim was enormously clever, he relished his bureaucratic power and was expert at using it. He was utterly contemptuous of the chain of command. He had a keen sense of what the traffic would bear in relation to his own interests. It worked like this: when a new director came in, Jim would stay in his own office out of sight. If a top staff meeting were requested, he simply wouldn’t attend and would offer endless delays. He was a master at waiting to see the new director alone—on his own terms and with his own agenda."21 Angleton’s most powerful patrons were Allen Dulles and Richard Helms. As biographer Tom Mangold described it, He was extended such trust by his supervisors that there was often a significant failure of executive control over his activities. The result was that his subsequent actions were performed without bureaucratic interference. The simple fact is that if Angleton wanted something done, it was done. He had the experience, the patronage, and the clout.22 It wasn’t until William Colby, a longtime nemesis of Angleton’s, became the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) that Angleton’s power was dimmed, and eventually extinguished. But it was a long time coming. Of course, this is getting a little off the topic of Willam Oltmans.

Edward Epstein interviewed de Mohrenschildt in Palm Beach for Readers Digest shortly before his "suicide." Lisa Pease and James DiEugenio have stressed their belief that Epstein was heavily influenced if not an outright agent of James Jesus Angleton. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...p;mode=threaded Beware: The Douglas/Janney/Simkin Silver Bullets By James DiEugenio: As John Newman has shown, Oswald's pre-assassination 201 files were held in a special mole-hunting unit inside Angleton's counter intelligence domain. This unit, called SIG, was the only unit Angleton had that had access to the Office of Security, which by coincidence, also held pre-assassination files on Oswald. Angleton staffer Ann Egerter once said that SIG would investigate CIA employees who were under suspicion of being security risks. (The Assassinations, pgs. 145-146). When Oswald "defects" to the Soviet Union, it just happens that Angleton is in charge of the Soviet Division within the CIA. When Oswald returns, he is befriended by George DeMohrenschildt, a man who Angleton has an intense interest in. As Lisa Pease pointed out, shortly before the assassination, Oswald's SIG file was transferred to the Mexico City HQ desk. (Ibid, p. 173) While there, members of Angleton's staff drafted two memos: one that describes Oswald accurately, and one that does not. The first goes to the CIA; the other goes to the State Department, FBI and Navy. Ann Goodpasture, who seems to have cooperated with David Phillips on the CIA's charade with Oswald in Mexico City, had worked with Angleton as a CI officer. *** While the HSCA was ongoing, Angleton was involved in two exceedingly interesting episodes: one that seemed to extend the cover up of his activities with Oswald, and one aimed at furthering his not so veiled threat about being a fall guy. The first concerns the creation of the book Legend by Angleton's friend and admirer Edward Epstein. Written exactly at he time of the HSCA inquiry, this book was meant to confuse the public about who Oswald really was. If anything, it was meant to portray him as a Russian agent being controlled by DeMohrenschildt. At the same time, DeMohrenschildt was being hounded by Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans to "confess" his role in the Kennedy assassination -- which he refused to do. Right after he was subpoenaed by the HSCA, DeMohrenschildt was either murdered or shot himself. The last person who saw him was reportedly Epstein. See Pease's articles at Probe: http://www.ctka.net/pr700-ang.html http://www.ctka.net/pr900-ang.html Also: http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/..._Kennedys_Ghost Another of the talking heads, Edward Jay Epstein, has acknowledged that one of his books on the case was written in extensive consultation with James Angleton, former head of CIA CounterIntelligence and himself a "person of interest." Epstein admitted in his book Deception that CounterIntelligence chief James Angleton and his associates were primary sources for his book Legend. Angleton's CI division had opened the 201 file on Oswald and kept it closely held in the Agency. For more on Angleton and the JFK assassination, see Lisa Pease's James Jesus Angleton and the Kennedy Assassination (Part 1 and Part 2).

Russ Baker answers these questions beginning with his subtitle "From One George to Another" at page 268.

In response to this thread: First, Adamson is a great researcher, but not a great writer. He has numerous volumes of self-published manuscripts for sale, which I purchased 8 or 9 years ago, that are loaded with information--much of it overlapping and poorly edited. But it was thorough, boldly acquired by him from interviews, requests for documents and all sorts of research that necessitated travel and other expenses most of us don't have the time or inclination to pursue. The caveat is: Don't expect flowing prose from Adamson; just the facts, ma'am. It was ground-breaking work that many have relied upon, whether they give him credit or not. (It's sort of like the LaRouche research in that sense.) Second, Russ Baker brings out many, many details about George and Jeanne DeMohrenschildt too numerous to go into here. 1. One is the fact that George DeM.'s brother Dimitry was married to the mother of George Bush's roommate, Edward Hooker--who became George DeM's partner in oil business in Colorado (Adamson originally dug up this information in his research). 2. Edward Hooker introduced George DeM to his wife, Lynn Sharples, who was very connected to Philadelphia social set and to the Sharples oil family. 3. Edward Hooker died young after financing George DeM in Colorado oil ventures; years later when his daughter married, Hooker's widow got George H.W. Bush to give their daughter away at the wedding to Ames Braga, son of one of the wealthiest sugar families living in New York--Rionda Braga company based in Cuba. George_HW_gives_away_Hooker__s_daughter.pdf

Russ Baker's book tour can be followed at the website www.familyofsecrets.com. Listen to interview here: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Watson_In...-Russ_Baker.mp3 Also Washington Post questions at 2p.m. Eastern Time today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...9010903050.html

Find index of entire database here: http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/data.htm Then do edit-search to find a name. Also in searchable pdf format: http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/image_index1.pdf Then view documents here: http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/

My guess is that when the trust company was sold to the Bank of New York, one of the attorneys looking over the paperwork realized that the documents needed to be filed. Previously, such requirements were treated more loosely than they are now. Thanks for your comments about my research. I can't take full credit for this, however. A friend has kept the research I did back in 2000 on her website for almost nine years now, and Russ Baker happened to see it. Since I'm probably the only person who has ever been literally obsessed with understanding the Empire Trust, Russ emailed me about it for further information. He actually obtained all the documents from the Texas secretary of state's office and forwarded them to me to analyze, since I spent many years as an attorney writing title opinions about real estate matters. Much research went into his book that had to be boiled down and condensed in order to get it out to a wider readership than just researchers; most people's eyes glaze over when they see all these names which mean nothing to them. In answer to John's question about DeGolyer, I suspect it was through this family, social, and business relationship that existed between Brunie and McCloy and Lewis Douglas that caused them to seek out DeGolyer, who was THE authority on petroleum geology from way back, particularly as a result of his work for Viscount Cowdray, who sold out to Shell in the days when the British Government was heavily invested in private industry. Cowdray aka Sir Weetman Pearson also had bought control of Lazard Freres' English operations and invested heavily in British newspapers. By the time DeGolyer left Pearson's Mexican oil company to start his own consulting firm with Lewis MacNaughton, he was also called in by FDR's administration to help set up the oil consortium in Saudia Arabia. Involved in the Saudi consortium was a man named Ralph K. Davies, who had been deputy petroleum coordinator and a member of the Mission to London to negotiate the Anglo American oil treaty and a special consultant to Secretary Harold Ickes. As president and director of American Independent Oil Co. (Aminoil) beginning in 1947 (under Truman), and of its Mexican subsidiary in 1949, he joined with Signal Oil and Edwin Pauley in signing the first "service contract" with Pemex, an oil company owned by the government of Mexico on March 5, 1949. Everette DeGolyer disclosed the terms of the contract with Pemex in a letter he wrote to Ambassador Lewis Douglas (quoted in Lon Tinkle, Mr. De: A Biography of Everette Lee DeGolyer at pages 325-26). During that same time a syndicate called Aminoil--a consortium composed of two individuals, Ralph K. Davies, a California lawyer and former Standard Oil of California (Socal) vice president, and James S. Abercrombie, a Houston oilman, and eight oil corporations was also heavily involved in explorations in the Middle East (according to Leonard Mosley in his book Power Play: Oil in the Middle East) . Possibly because of the closeness between DeGolyer and Ambassador Douglas, whose wife was the sister of John McCloy's wife, as well as McCloy's close friendship with Brunie, the Empire Trust decided to invest in Texas oil, as evidenced by Michel Halbouty's being financed by Empire Trust. The question in my mind is how Stephen Birmingham tied all that into the Bronfmans and Seagrams and called it a private CIA.

James Herbert Martin managed the Inn of the Six Flags, a motel in Arlington where the Secret Service held Marina and Marguerite Oswald for safe-keeping. Peter Dale Scott says the motel was owned by the Great Southwest Corporation controlled by the Bedford Wynne family. He also says Martin later took Marina into his home and became her "agent." The letter says he was was from St. Louis, Mo. and employed in December 1963 for Jack Murphy Company in Dallas at 1700 Corrigan Towers in Dallas. As it turns out, the Corrigan Company which owned the Corrigan Towers was the biggest real estate company in Dallas at the time. It was, in fact, Jack Ruby's landlord. Leo Francis Corrigan from St. Louis also built the Republic Bank building in Dallas. The same architects who designed the Republic Bank building in Dallas between 1953 and 1954 also designed the new CIA building for Allen Dulles in 1955--as well as the U.N. Building in New York and the Carnegie Endowment building. Leo Corrigan bought a considerable amount of land in 1947 from Lloyd Bentsen's father and brother, who were real estate developers in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. See http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=704703 and http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=485419 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...ult&id=2681 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=143299

What is your definition of "involved"? The Empire Trust was first chartered to do business in Texas by filing with the Texas secretary of state in 1966, when its address was given as 20 Broad Street in New York; at that time DeGolyer was already deceased. Grinnell Morris was then president of Empire Trust. Certified copies of all corporate documents were submitted to Texas at that time, beginning with the incorporation as McVickar Realty Trust in New York City in 1902. However, an amended dated in January 1963 stated that the president was, at that time, Henry C. Brunie, who had been president at least since 1940. According to a 1937 amendment, the previous president was Leroy W. Baldwin. McVickar had been set up by land developers in New York in 1902. It merged with Empire State Trust and changed the name to Empire Trust Company. When Baldwin was president in 1934 the address was 120 Broadway. In 1924 the Empire Trust acquired Hudson Trust, and the merger agreement shows that the directors at that time included three members of the Baldwin family, as well as Jules S. Bache, Coleman DuPont and F. Donaldson Brown (connected to DuPont chemical wealth), Minor Cooper Keith (connected to South American fruit company and railroad empire), Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (General Motors connection, which also overlapped with DuPont family), Percy R. Pyne II (a descendant of Moses Taylor who started National City Bank, which eventually ended up in the hands of James Stillman, whose two daughters married sons of William Rockefeller), William G. Skelly (an Oklahoma oil man), several other directors, and Warren S. Stone. Stone's life was summarized by Time magazine, which reported his death in these words: " He was a great Labor leader who never called a strike. He was a great Labor leader who proved himself a financier." Years ago I wrote about the Empire Trust, as follows: Thus it would seem that the Empire Trust was a proprietary of the CIA long before there even was a CIA! In those days, however, the goal was the same--to protect the American economy; to ensure that the value of the wealth of the financial establishment would not suffer a decline because of labor unrest (strikes) or from inflation. Henry (aka Harry) Brunie was John McCloy's best man at his wedding to Ellen Zinsser in 1930. Zinsser was a sister of Mrs. Lewis W. Douglas, whose husband was from a mining/banking family in Arizona. The sisters, Ellen McCloy and Peggy Scharmann Zinsser Douglas, were daughters of Fredrick George Zinsser. Lewis Douglas was a grandson of James Douglas, the President of the Phelps-Dodge Company, which linked back to the group of New York businessmen around Moses Taylor, who started Citigroup before it was taken over by sons of William Rockefeller, both of whom lived in Greenwich, Ct., where Prescott Bush reared his family. In DeGolyer's memoirs, Mr. De, he mentions his closeness to the Lewis Douglas family and inquires after their daughter Sharman, who was a close friend of DeGolyer's daughter. When DeGolyer was in Europe, he made a point of visiting the Douglas family in London, where he was ambassador. The Douglas family had originally gone out to Arizona to manage the mines for Phelps-Dodge, and it was while there they became linked to the James J. Angleton's wife's family, the D'Autremonts. After the death of Cicely Angleton's father, Hubert d'Autremont, William Pyott became president of the Southern Arizona Bank, of which Lewis Douglas was chairman. Another director was John Greenway, who married Eleanor Roosevelt's closest friend (Isabella Selmes Ferguson), who had previously been married to her Uncle Teddy's best friend named Ferguson. When Elliott Roosevelt got out of the Army Air Force, he was heading out to Arizona to visit the Greenways when he stopped in Dallas-Fort Worth and met the girl he would marry after he divorced his then-wife. She was part of the country-club circle around Amon Carter in Fort Worth. (Incidentally it was the same country club established on land that had been the family home of David Atlee Phillips' mother.) Elliott's daughter later married a banker's daughter from Dallas and Midland who was related to Robert H. Stewart, Jr.--the same banker who hired George H.W. Bush to work for him at First International Bank. Small world. What actually linked them together was their desire in 1932 to get rid of Herbert Hoover. They joined together in supporting FDR and helped staff his administration. Lewis Douglas was budget director and helped to plan the repeal of Volstead Act, along with John Raskob, who ran the Democratic Party and funded it, with help from Coleman du Pont. Douglas had worked for the same bank in Arizona as Angleton's father-in-law, the Southern Arizona Bank in Tucson.

The logical question is "What branch of the CIA did Egerter work for?" The answer is found here: http://www.ctka.net/pr700-ang.html PROBE--From the July-August 2000 issue (Vol. 7 No. 5)

I find myself wondering if the reviewer even read the book. Perhaps as a novelist, she isn't aware of how difficult it is to dig up evidence to support a conclusion when virtually everything surrounding the life of an individual and his family is stamped "top secret." I think Russ Baker reveals that quite clearly to anyone who has done any research into how intelligence operation work. The question in my mind is "Do we want intelligence operatives, whose lives are controlled by plausible deniability--in short, lies--to take our oath to support the United States Constitution? Quoting Baker about George William Bush, the "coverer": "I do not recognize the contents of the memorandum as information furnished to me orally or otherwise during the time I was at the CIA," he said. "In fact, during my time at the CIA, I did not receive any oral communications from any government agency of any nature whatsoever. I did not receive any information relating to the Kennedy assassination during my time at the CIA from the FBI. Based on the above, it is my conclusion that I am not the Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency referred to in the memorandum." Rather than taking that statement and realizing that the only possibility for George H.W. Bush's cover was removed as being THE George Bush of the CIA that the memo could have referred to, Malanowski concludes Baker did not achieve HIS goal of explaining why this person didn't back up the CIA strategy! Secondly, I have to wonder if the Washington Post in publishing this review is still out to keep "Katie Graham's tit out of a wringer," as John Mitchell so aptly phrased the Post's Watergate expose at the time. Russ Baker does not fail to point out the participation her father, Eugene Meyer, had in financing George Bush's oil business in Texas from the very first days of his career, as well as the fact that Meyer had accounts handled by Bush's uncle at Brown Brothers Harriman.

Tom, It sounds as if you have lots of important information about this subject, but very little of it relates to the title of Mr. Baker's book about the forces that put the Bush Dynasty in the White House. Why did you, in framing your question, fail to mention that Henry Crown's company was involved in dredging work in the Philippines and in the Caribbean preparing one of the islands to be a casino resort? I would submit that everyone has a different take on these facts, but, having written articles myself, know that publishers and editors are always cutting out anything that doesn't relate to the specific topic. My interest in Henry Crown as head of the Materials Service Corp. in Chicago is whether he may have been involved in mining or recovery of strategic minerals that would have necessitated security clearance. It has been discussed in other circles that he was used in the Philippines to recover Japanese gold that was then laundered through gambling casinos somehow which I don't pretend to understand. In addition, and I would ask Mr. Baker to comment on this: Did you find in your research any common threads to mining operations and covert intelligence operations, and if so, do you think that is significant in understanding the real purpose of, for example, the CIA?

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